{"id":21033,"date":"2016-12-19T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=21033"},"modified":"2016-12-20T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:52:32","slug":"ipa-late-dec-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/ipa-late-dec-jobs.html","title":{"rendered":"IPA Late Dec. Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates their impact, and refines these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world\u2019s poor. Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 350 leading academics to conduct over 450 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Annual Survey Field Staff \u2013 Team Leaders (TLs)<\/strong><\/p>\n Annual Survey Field Staff,\u00a0Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS)<\/p>\n Project Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS) project is a follow up study on the Examining Under investment in Agriculture (EUI) project which was conducted from 2009-2012 by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Ghana. The project explored questions on constraints to under investment in farming activities in Northern Ghana.<\/p>\n To achieve this study randomly assigned treatment on capital and\/or weather-indexed insurance to selected farmers, and measured the impact of these treatments on agricultural investment decisions. The key outcome of this study was that access to insurance led to increased farmer investment in scale of production but not cultivation intensification.<\/p>\n DIRTS project hypothesizes that in addition to drought index insurance, access to extension services and a wide range of agricultural inputs, farmers will adopt intensified cultivation practices and thus improve production and per-acre profitability.<\/p>\n Position Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n IPA seeks project field staff to perform the roles of Surveyors, Team Leaders (TLs), Auditors and Field Supervisor (FS) in its upcoming Follow up survey on randomly selected respondents in the DIRTS study sample.<\/p>\n This position is temporal and will be based in Tamale but will require extensive travel within and across 13 districts in Northern Region, Ghana.<\/p>\n Team Leaders (TLs) position\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Team Leaders (TLs) will oversee survey fieldwork. This will involve managing a team of 5 surveyors and is responsible for maintaining high quality data. In particular, the TL will;<\/p>\n Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n It is required that potential candidates possess;<\/p>\n How to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Please fill out the online application form by clicking the link below:<\/p>\n The deadline for applications to this position is January 4, 2017.<\/strong> Applications received will however be reviewed on an ongoing basis. DISCLAIMER<\/strong>: Please note that IPA will never require monetary compensation as part of its application process. Any requests for monetary compensation by persons claiming to be IPA employees or persons claiming to represent IPA should be disregarded and reported. Please direct questions to jobs-ghana@poverty-action.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates their impact, and refines…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1803],"tags":[2027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-5tf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nDue to the high volume of applications received by IPA, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email or phone for an interview<\/p>\n